Based on the definition of citizen, literacy and scientific literacy, as well as the common commands of citizens of scientific literacy claimed in the Outline of National Action Program for Scientific Literacy of All Chinese Citizens, this paper discusses the creation of sub-aims of improving the public scientific literacy in four aspects. The paper also supports a content system in terms of science communication, and appeals to set up an assessment indicator system which can be used to measure the scientific literacy changes after the public are informed of the content.

citizenry  /  scientific literacy  /  sub-aims  /  contents system  /  indicator system